Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-07-13
Where Armistead fell Union Soldiers will
.,erect a Monument to Confederate Valor.

erect Monument to Confederate ValOr.
The following proceedings ACQUIRED at
the reunion of Union and Confederate
veterans on the scene of Gettysburg bat
tie field -
'sThe dedication of the monument of
Cowan's Battery A, of New York, was
marked by the most significant action of
the day, which promises to end in very
short order the controversy over the loca-
ton of the shaft to mark the furthest ad-
vance made by Pickett's men. That was
the rock, it will be remembered. upon
which the first arrangement for this re-
union split, the Gettysburg Memorial AS
ISOLATION refusing to allow Pickett's division
to place monument within the Union
lines which for brief moment they pene-
trated.
1t was after the formal ceremonies of the
Cowan-B Battery dedication were over that
this event occurred. General Burns, when
nearly all the visitors had departed, few re-
manning except the members of the Phila-
delphia brigade and of Pickett's division,
briefly addressed his fellow veterans. He
said that now when all had been together
the valorous death of Almistead had won
eulogy from both sides. He, therefore,
proposed that Union men themselves erect
monument to General Armistead at the
spot where he fell within the Union lines
General Burns offered a resolution that the
monument be erected by the Philadelphia
Pickett's division be invited to its dedica-
ton enc year from to-day. The resolution
was unanimously adopted"
AS the veterans were going over the bat
tle.field in different groups, R. Tyler Jones,
who carried the battle flag of the Fifty
third Virginia regiment of Armistead's
Brigade, and fell wounded just as he
reached the works, where, as falling, he
handed them to Adjutant Coalter, met
with quite reception right at the place
where be put his flag, and Armistead
crossed over the enemy's works. Stand
ing there he was called on to speak and
| sid -
s'Soldiers, I have been here once before.
Then my way was lit by the lurid flame
of war, and my path marked by the ghast-
ly sights of wounded and dying, and can
non, lausketry, and beyonet was my greet
ing; but to-day we are. charging the cita-
dels of your hearts, and. like brave men,
you have opened the food-gates of fra
ternal affection and changed our stern
alarums to delightful greetings. History
will tell that nearly quarter of century
ago nations stood aghast, and the world
wondered when, on this spot, streak of
gray lost itself in cloud of blue, and in a
sea of blood was buried the hopes of
people. and the red hand of war wrote the
decree that the Union should be preserved.
And to day the bright sun of peace is re-
flecting from the tears of widow and Or
phau that bow which makes promise of
no more war between these people,
but henceforth and forever Southern
chivalry and Northern valcr shall stand
shoulder to shoulder 10 defense of one
COMMON Country"
In his extremely interesting account of
the charge of Pickett's men on the Sd of
July, 1868, at the memorable battle of
Gettysburg, Col. Walter Harrison, Inspect
Or General on General Pickett's staff, gives
us the following list of the killed and
wounded officers on the occasion =
The three Brigadier Generals were wound
ed and left on the field. Garnet died in
SGantly; Arm1SLeaQ SnOrC ClIll6 aICoI WaruS,
and Kemper, supposed mortally wounded,
recovered and was exchanged. Only a
single field officer of the fifteen regiments
survived; and when the remnant of the
division YES collected after arping the
cooks and camp details, only one thousand
men remained. "Of the colonies of regi-
ments, seven were killed on the feld:-
Hodges, Edmonds, Magruder, Williams,
Patton, Allen and Owens, and one, Stuart,
was Rortally wounded. Three lieutenant
colonies were killed, Calcott, Wade and
Ellis. Five colonels Hunton, Terry,
Garnett, Mayo and Aylett were wounded;
and three observation-disclosures, commanding
regiments, Darlington. Otey and Richard
son, were wounded. In fine, of the whole
com plemcnt of field officers in fifteen regi
ments, only one escaped unhurt. This was
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph G. Cabell, who
was afterwards killed in the battle Of
Drewry's Farm, May 16, 1864. The loss
of company officers was quite equal in pro-
portion. Thus were these three brigades
dep:iyed at one fell swoop of the very
flower of the their officers aud men "a loss
never to be fully repaired"